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From MTV to Hollywood
In the era when MTV reached full cultural domination, music videos served as petri dishes for experimentation, allowing up-and-coming auteurs to hone their boundary-pushing styles before unleashing them on the big screen. Directors who cut their teeth finding a cinematic language for hip-hop, indie, and pop acts went on to envision some of the freshest, most thrilling and even avant-garde movies released around the turn of the century. Kinetic, audacious, and hyperstylized, these Y2K-era touchstones from filmmakers like David Fincher (Se7en), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and Hype Williams (Belly) rewired the possibilities of visual storytelling.
Programmed by Sean Fennessey
FEATURING: Guncrazy (1992), CB4 (1993),* Se7en (1995), Belly (1998), The Replacement Killers (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999),* The Cell (2000), Sexy Beast (2000), CQ (2001), Human Nature (2001), Adaptation. (2002), One Hour Photo (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),* Thumbsucker (2005),* ATL (2006), The Runaways (2010)
Starring Nicolas Cage
Pioneer of a style of acting he calls “nouveau shamanic,” Nicolas Cage stretches the boundaries of screen performance to their limits, pursuing a heightened, kabuki-like expressionism that is instinctive, abstract, and thrillingly unpredictable. That he has deployed this approach across offbeat independent projects and major Hollywood blockbusters alike makes him a truly one-of-a-kind star: the leading man as wild man, a force so galvanic that, even when working with major directors like Spike Jonze (Adaptation.), David Lynch (Wild at Heart), Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), and Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out the Dead), he often emerges as the film’s co-auteur, reshaping its texture through his live-wire physicality and risk-taking choices few other actors would dare attempt.
FEATURING: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982),* Rumble Fish (1983),* Valley Girl (1983), Birdy (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Moonstruck (1987), Raising Arizona (1987), Vampire’s Kiss (1988), Wild at Heart (1990),* Leaving Las Vegas (1995), City of Angels (1998), Snake Eyes (1998),* Bringing Out the Dead(1999),* Adaptation. (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Wicker Man (2006), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Starring Gene Tierney
Featuring an introduction by critic Imogen Sara Smith, part of Criterion’s Spotlight series
With her porcelain beauty and a cool sophistication that seemed to conceal turbulent emotional depths, Gene Tierney emerged as one of the most arresting stars of Hollywood’s golden age. Though equally striking in the sparky con-woman comedy Rings on Her Fingers, the brooding gothic melodrama Dragonwyck, and the gorgeously atmospheric romantic fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, it was in the realm of noir that she perhaps made her greatest impact, bringing a fascinating, enigmatic ambiguity to classics like Laura, Night and the City, and, above all, Leave Her to Heaven, in which her elegant poise masks a shocking monstrousness.
FEATURING: Rings on Her Fingers (1942), Laura (1944), Leave Her to Heaven(1945), Dragonwyck (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), That Wonderful Urge (1948), Night and the City (1950), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Way of a Gaucho (1952), Never Let Me Go (1953)
Celebrating Jeremy Thomas
As founder of the British film production outfit Recorded Picture Company, Jeremy Thomas, who passed away this September, set in motion some of the most sensational, provocative, and culturally impactful art-house hits of the last fifty years, enabling creatively restless directors to realize their visions. From challenging audiences with his very first production, Jerzy Skolimowski’s terrifying enigma The Shout, to courting controversy with Nicolas Roeg’s daring study of erotic obsession Bad Timing to achieving Oscar glory with Bernardo Bertolucci’s sumptuous epic The Last Emperor, Thomas left a titanic imprint on film culture by giving uncompromising, personal cinema a space to flourish.
FEATURING: The Shout (1978), Bad Timing (1980), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), The Hit (1984), Insignificance (1985), The Last Emperor(1987), The Cup (1999), Sexy Beast (2000), Palermo Shooting (2008), The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021), EO (2022), Anselm (2023), Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (2023)
CRITERION ORIGINALS
Hiro Murai’s Adventures in Moviegoing
One of the major forces behind some of the most talked-about pop-culture sensations of the last decade—from the zeitgeist-capturing music video for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” to the acclaimed series Atlanta, The Bear, and Widow’s Bay—multi-Emmy-winning director and producer Hiro Murai is a creative powerhouse with a deep, lifelong love of cinema. In this episode of Adventures in Moviegoing, he joins Chris Ryan (editorial director of The Ringerand cohost of The Watch podcast) for an entertaining and insightful conversation about the creative overlap between his life, his work, and the films he has watched and loved, from early memories of movie-watching in Japan with his cinephile father to the transformative influence of cinematic visionaries like Spike Jonze, Quentin Tarantino, and Wim Wenders.
REDISCOVERIES AND RESTORATIONS
No Picnic
A wonderfully scruffy, deadpan time capsule from the bohemian fringes of the 1980s East Village, this freewheeling urban picaresque follows Mac (David Brisbin), a hangdog jukebox repairman, as he searches the city’s margins for a mysterious woman—an odyssey that captures the eccentric flavor of downtown Manhattan when it was still the epicenter of cool, as well as the stirrings of gentrification that would soon transform the neighborhood. Shot in gloriously grainy, noir-tinged black-and-white images (which won experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton a Sundance award for Best Cinematography) and featuring classic New York personalities like Richard Hell, Steve Buscemi, and Luis Guzmán, No Picnic serves as a gloriously grimy elegy for a bygone era.
Utu Redux
A landmark of New Zealand cinema composed in images of shocking, feverish power, this blistering Kiwi western is an audacious vision of anticolonial rage that’s been championed by the likes of Pauline Kael and Quentin Tarantino. In 1870s New Zealand, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), a Māori warrior working as a scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the very army he is helping. Anguished and betrayed, be vows to exact retribution—“utu”—on those occupying his people’s land. Originally released in 1983 and distributed internationally in a compromised recut, the film is now presented in its definitive director’s cut, Utu Redux.
CRITERION COLLECTION EDITIONS
This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)*
Criterion Collection Edition #12
The mock rock doc that goes to eleven follows a trio of British heavy-metal headbangers as they embark on a hilariously disastrous American tour.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Three audio commentaries by cast and crew members, a conversation between director Rob Reiner and actor Patton Oswalt, ninety-eight minutes of outtakes, and more.
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
Criterion Collection Edition #1118
The Band, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and other legendary artists put on a concert for the ages in Martin Scorsese’s ecstatic elegy for the classic-rock era.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Two audio commentaries by Scorsese, his crew, and performers; an interview with Scorsese; a documentary on the making of the film; and more.
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)*
Criterion Collection Edition #1268
A jolt of pure adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British indie cinema, Danny Boyle’s edgy, darkly funny portrait of addiction chooses life in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying, strange exhilaration.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge, and actor Ewan McGregor; documentaries on the making of the film; deleted scenes; and more.
The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007)
Criterion Collection Edition #527
Passions and problems explode when the patriarch of a bustling French-Arab family sets out to open a restaurant specializing in his ex-wife’s couscous and fish.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with director Abdellatif Kechiche, actors Hafsia Herzi and Bouraouïa Marzouk, and the film’s musicians; Sueur, Kechiche’s extended reedit of the climactic belly-dancing sequence; and more.
Welcome II the Terrordome (Ngozi Onwurah, 1995)
Criterion Collection Edition #1329
Following a young boy’s murder, racial tensions explode in a segregated slum in this radically ahead-of-its-time landmark of Afrofuturist cinema.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by director Ngozi Onwurah, cinematographer Alwin H. Küchler, and Criterion curatorial director Ashley Clark; a Meet the Filmmakers interview with Onwurah; and more.
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)*
Criterion Collection Edition #611
Spike Jonze invites you to enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for a wildly surreal, meta-cinematic adventure unlike any other.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Selected-scene audio commentary by Jonze’s friend and competitor Michel Gondry; a behind-the-scenes documentary by filmmaker Lance Bangs; a conversation between Malkovich and humorist John Hodgman; and more.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)*
Criterion Collection Edition #1075
Southern California teens explore love, sex, and independence in director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe’s look at the wild world of adolescence.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Heckerling and Crowe; a conversation with Heckerling and Crowe, moderated by filmmaker Olivia Wilde; a documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew; and more.
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)*
Criterion Collection Edition #869
Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate emotions in this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Coppola; interviews with Coppola, author and coscreenwriter S. E. Hinton, associate producer Roman Coppola, and actors Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and Mickey Rourke; and more.
DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHTS
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Featuring an introduction by Hamaguchi, part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series
The films of Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi are feats of alchemy, transforming weighty philosophical exploration into engaging, gracefully humanistic narrative; imbuing epic runtimes with an intimately immersive rhythm that seems to reconfigure time itself; and making conversation-driven, literary dialogue feel elegantly cinematic. Bringing together the richly absorbing portrait of evolving female friendship Happy Hour, the Oscar-winning exploration of grief and unexpected connection Drive My Car, and the enigmatic eco-thriller Evil Does Not Exist, this collection showcases the singular touch of a master.
FEATURING: Happy Hour (2015), Drive My Car (2021), Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
Roy Andersson’s Existential Comedies
Featuring an introduction by filmmaker Ari Aster and cartoonist Daniel Clowes, part of Criterion’s Spotlight series
The absurdity of everyday life comes into bleakly humorous focus in the meticulously crafted, miniaturist tragicomedies of Swedish auteur Roy Andersson. Though he has made only six features over the course of a nearly sixty-year career (filling much of his time directing surreal advertisements that earned the admiration of Ingmar Bergman), his later work is constructed with an extraordinary, painterly precision, each frame a deep-focus tableaux teeming with deadpan visual invention. In his acclaimed Living Trilogy—Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living; and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence—Andersson offers a panoramic vision of modern society through dozens of intricately composed vignettes that explore both the despair and the strange poetry of the human condition.
FEATURING: A Swedish Love Story (1970), Songs from the Second Floor (2000), You, the Living (2007), A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014),* About Endlessness (2019)*
Directed by Mary Stephen
Mary Stephen’s life and career span a remarkable distance of world geography and film history. Born in British Hong Kong and raised in Montreal, she traveled to Paris as a young cinephile and became one of Eric Rohmer’s closest collaborators, serving as his editor and co-composer for many years. She has since become a go-to editor for filmmakers both emerging and established, including Ann Hui. Yet her own work as a director remains relatively underseen. Brimming with discoveries, this collection brings together her newly restored experimental short films, alongside a mesmerizing, Marguerite Duras–inflected vision of unspoken sapphic desire in 1930s Shanghai (Shades of Silk) and a fascinating inquiry into her own complex family history (Palimpsest: The Story of a Name).
FEATURES: Shades of Silk (1978), Palimpsest: The Story of a Name (2025)
SHORTS: Labyrinthe (1973), The Great Canadian Puberty Rite (1974), A Very Easy Death (1975)
DOCUMENTARIES
New York Documentaries by Bobbito García
Legendary DJ and quintessential New Yorker Bobbito García has been at the forefront of East Coast hip-hop culture since his early days cohosting The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show, the taste-making underground radio show that gave early exposure to artists like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and Wu-Tang Clan. Steeped in the vibrant, DIY energy of New York’s street culture, this trio of candid and kinetic documentaries directed by García showcases the intersecting passions—basketball, sneakers, and music—that have defined his life.
FEATURING: Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC (2012), Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives (2015), Rock Rubber 45s (2018)
A Body to Live In
This provocative and revealing look at the rise of BDSM performance art and body-modification culture considers what it means to live freely in one’s own skin.
Two Gods
An intimate documentary about faith, renewal, and healing follows a Muslim casket maker in New Jersey as he takes two teenage apprentices under his wing.
SHORT FILMS
Two Short Films by Elisabeth Subrin
What does it mean to be a woman artist asserting her agency in a capitalist, male-dominated film industry? Inspired by a haunting interview given by actor Maria Schneider, in which she alluded to the trauma of filming Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris opposite Marlon Brando, Elisabeth Subrin’s arresting recreation Maria Schneider, 1983 casts three captivating actors—Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval—as versions of Schneider, giving them space to blend Schneider’s responses with their own unique perspectives on race and gender. In Subrin’s companion short Manal Issa, 2024, the French Lebanese Issa once again answers the same questions, this time fully in her own words as an Arab artist rethinking her priorities amid escalating Israeli air strikes on Beirut.
FEATURING: Maria Schneider, 1983 (2022), Manal Issa, 2024 (2024)
Duke of Groove
A stacked ensemble cast including Tobey Maguire, Uma Thurman, Udo Kier, and Elliott Gould stars in Griffin Dunne’s woozy, bittersweet portrait of adolescence amid the 1960s counterculture.
Oh, Christmas Tree
A father and daughter’s attempts to recreate their favorite holiday traditions bump up against the sobering reality of an altered family dynamic.
MUSIC FILMS
Home of the Brave
Laurie Anderson’s mesmerizing concert film blends video art, puckish wit, and her oddly infectious synth anthems into a singular record of the ’80s avant-garde.
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CINEMA
Drunken Noodles
A young art student’s experiences of sex, creativity, and self-discovery take the form of a languorously dreamy, magical realism–inflected queer fantasia.
NEW ADDITIONS TO PREVIOUS PROGRAMS
Premiering November 1 in Daniel Clowes’s Adventures in Moviegoing: The President’s Analyst*
When the pressures of his job push the president’s shrink over the edge, he goes on the run through a funhouse-mirror version of ’60s America in this psychedelic cult satire.